December 10, 2006

Mecox drained...watch your fins

Beautiful windsurfing today from the Yacht Club on Mecox Bay, fully powered on a 5.5. Mecox is not actually a bay, for the record...it's a "brackish pond" which gets its fresh water from the sky, and salt water from storm breaches and when the local engineers make a cut between Mecox and the ocean.

The pond has been drained in the last week or so...there's usually only about eight or so feet of beach at the Yacht Club. I whacked one fin pretty good before switching to a beater fin. If you're interested in sailing Mecox, the closest wind meter that reflects conditions is at Shinnecock inlet. Note that this sensor is on a tower about 30 feet high, and when the water is cold and the wind warm, as it was today, the meter may read 5-10 knots more wind than what you'll get on the water.

The Yacht Club is not a yacht club either. There may have been one there once, but now all that stands there is a dilapidated boat shed overgrown with reeds, and what looks like old racks for crew boats off to the side.

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nice job on the van blog, and the job itself.good to share construction best practices, and it looks like u have jammed it in there pretty good!
how much for the van?
my current girlfriend told me that if I buy a van, she is OUT (she obv does not sail!)
Kevin O
stmfd ct
long island boy originally

Hey Kevin,
My wife said if we bought the house she wanted that I could have a van, so that's how I solved the female aversion issue. IMPORTANT NOTE: My wife now loves the van...it's not an overstuffed, wet abused vehicle doing double duty (also she has her own car.) The passenger seat tilts back nicely, she has plenty of leg room, I put in a vanity mirror and a storage drawer for whatever she wants. She does sail occasionally.

Thanks for the kind words...if you ever get a van yourself get in touch with me and give you all the detail you want.